Некоторые попытки в постсоветской критике вчитать Гоголя-христианина в Гоголя-автора характеризуются тенденциозной односторонностью. Духовно-литературные каноны вписываются в христианскую ортодоксальность позднего Гоголя ...
The article constitutes an attempt to show similarity of Gogol's and Seneca's artistic worlds manifested in "Maximum genre" which was formed as a result of intensive reflections about Death.
As to the researcher Gogol's material world is naturally connected with the old Ukrainian Baroque philosophic prose and illustrates the idea of vanitas.
The author draws the mains streams of Gogol's studies in modern Ukraine and considers the national interpretative subjectivity of humanistic knowledge.